- Package:
- src:lilypond
- Source:
- src:lilypond
- Submitter:
- Christoph Brinkhaus
- Date:
- 2024-04-23 08:27:04 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainer, on https://manpages.debian.org/testing/lilypond/abc2ly.1.en.html is a reference to the abc standard applicable for this software. The related sentence is "abc2ly converts ABC music files (see http://abcnotation.com/abc2mtex/abc.txt) to LilyPond input." The correct link is "http://abcnotation.com/abc2mtex/abc.txt" which leads the reader to a wiki page and a text file. On Debian the link is "http://abcnotation.com/abc2mtex/abc.txt)". I felt free to check the Arch man-page where the link is correct. Therefore I guess that this little issue is related to Debian and not to LilyPond. On Debian the link is incorrect for different languages and not just English. Using a browser it is almost no effort to remove the trailing ")" but a correct link sould be better. Please fix the issue in one of the next updates. Thank you very much for taking care of the project, Christoph Brinkhaus
`abc2ly`'s man page of LilyPond's development version gets created with `help2man` version 1.47.4, which gives ``` abc2ly converts ABC music files (see https://abcnotation.com/standard/abc_v1.6.txt) to LilyPond input. ``` I guess that the Debian people use another version of `help2man` that tries to convert URLs like the above to real hyperlinks, and that this version uses a regular expression that accepts `(` and `)` as part of URLs. While this is technically correct, it might fail for situations like the one under discussion where a human reader can easily deduce that the final, closing parenthesis is actually *not* part of the URL. Anyway, I've fixed this in LilyPond's git repository. https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2309 Werner
`abc2ly`'s man page of LilyPond's development version gets created with `help2man` version 1.47.4, which gives ``` abc2ly converts ABC music files (see https://abcnotation.com/standard/abc_v1.6.txt) to LilyPond input. ``` I guess that the Debian people use another version of `help2man` that tries to convert URLs like the above to real hyperlinks, and that this version uses a regular expression that accepts `(` and `)` as part of URLs. While this is technically correct, it might fail for situations like the one under discussion where a human reader can easily deduce that the final, closing parenthesis is actually *not* part of the URL. Anyway, I've fixed this in LilyPond's git repository. https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2309 Werner